Geese on Amitav Krishna

Canada Geese: Canada's Unofficial Official Unofficial Bird

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:52:09 +0000

Meta: This was written a few years ago when I was in grade 7, which is why much of the writing is terrible, many of the facts misleading and wrong, and why there are so many parentheticals (like this (and sometimes nested parentheticals too)). I may return to this one day and make it better, but don’t hold your breath. You can also see some discussion from when I posted this, on Reddit.

2026-07-21 Goose Photography

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:08:57 +0000

This is a blog-ified version of this X thread: https://x.com/amitavkrshna/status/2079752248872050770, with some minor edits. Also, these photos were actually taken yesterday, 2026-07-20, but I chose to exercise my free will and post them today instead.

1/7

I don’t like this one because the camera isn’t straight and the geese are far away. It will be okay after some cropping + rotation

2/7

I like this one a little bit, but I think it could also be improved by cropping from the left such that the geese take up ~all of the frame.

2026-07-08 Goose Photography

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:40:14 +0000

This is a blog-ified version of this X thread: https://x.com/amitavkrshna/status/2074987857446318454

1/9 This was a bad photo, the geese are restricted to the upper left corner 2/9 Another mediocre photograph, though now there’s a single brave goose venturing into the top centre box 3/9 I like this one a little bit more, but the geese aren’t looking anywhere in particular which makes it less dramatic 4/9 I like this photograph quite a bit, they’re looking at an elderly fellow who was sitting on a bench out of frame 5/9 This photograph does a poor job of highlighting the geese in my opinion, although I like the prominent traingles and the slight surrealism of the island between the water bodies making it look like one body of water is above the other 6/9 This will be great when cropped a little bit (see 10/9) 7/9 This photo probably did not need to be taken, pretty much the same as 6 8/9 This one is a little bit better than mediocre, but still doesn’t focus enough on anything in particular, feels a bit distracted 9/9 This one will be pretty good after cropping out the bottom goose (see 11/9) 10/9 I really like this one, apart from the low-resolution 11/9 6/10, needs to be straightened